#X #Legal #InvestorsUnsealed

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...the role model, well nothing can beat the #Chinese #surveillance state.

It's all in the open, #Twitter's programming and infrastructure is way to much legacy and trying to move masses of people from one app to another is all but impossible due to the network lock-in effect, as Cory @pluralistic has been explaining.
A mature #Bluesky product and a quickly collapsing #X infrastructure...

#X #Legal #InvestorsUnsealed

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You're right, Nicole.
I think, however, there still is a hidden equally important agenda regarding the #TwitterDemolition, which most still fail to see:

mastodon.social/@HistoPol/1111…

I can't prove it yet, OFC, but time will tell. #Bluesky inheriting most of the remaining #X users would just make so much sense.

Apart from the reasons named, #Elmo is still working towards the #EverythingApp, inspired by the #Chinese #WeeChat.
And if #China is...

@mike

#X #Legal #InvestorsUnsealed

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...prompting some gentle sparring on #Twitter — but he soon came around. Given #Saudi Crown Prince #MohammadBinSalman’s [#MBS] years-long crackdown against dissent and powerful businessmen and political rivals — which included imprisoning and torturing hundreds of prominent #Saudis, including Prince Alwaleed, in Riyadh’s Ritz Carlton hotel — it’s likely that #MBS controls those shares..."

Do read on:

jacobsilverman.com/p/we-got-a-…

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We Got a Judge to Unseal a List of X's Shareholders

A federal judge agreed with me that knowing the identities of Elon Musk's investors is in the public interest.

^{Jacob Silverman}

@Npars01
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...and sanctioned entities, is listed an X investor. (#Binance’s CEO, #ChangpengZhao, pleaded guilty to money laundering violations and is finishing up a short stint in federal prison.)

There are two entries for Prince #AlwaleedBinTalal and another for his Kingdom Holding Company, which was the largest outside shareholder of #Twitter when it was a public company. Prince #Alwaleed briefly opposed #Musk’s takeover —...

@Npars01
#X #Legal #InvestorsUnsealed

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...of the investors [which IMO should often be called "co-conspirators,"] in particular the #Saudi crown prince, #MBS's role (see article).

"...The list #X filed with the court mentions 95 names and legal entities.

Some of them are familiar names for Musk-watchers:

#AndreessenHorowitz, 8VC, #JackDorsey, Ross Gerber, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Sequoia, et al. There are 26 entries related to #Fidelity, the mutual fund colossus. There’s...

#X #Legal #InvestorsUnsealed

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Via #JacobSilverman

"...it’s important to know who the volatile owner of a major platform for public debate, political discourse, and government surveillance and information operations is working with — who he [#ElonMusk] owes, who he listens to, and who might influence what happens on X."

"*We Got a Judge to Unseal a List of X's Shareholders*"

While the list is quite long, it is interesting to highlight some...

jacobsilverman.com/p/we-got-a-…

Cc @Npars01 @mike

We Got a Judge to Unseal a List of X's Shareholders

A federal judge agreed with me that knowing the identities of Elon Musk's investors is in the public interest.

^{Jacob Silverman}